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jonathankoren on July 5, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jshell: The Java Shell (REPL)

It's a REPL! It's for debugging. If you're not optimizing for ease of use, you're optimizing for the wrong metric.

lgas on July 5, 2015 [–]

You could also just add support for the "var x =" notation into the REPL as a preprocessing step that translates it to the appropriate typed representation.

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